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Written Answers — Department of Health: Parliamentary Questions (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 420. To ask the Minister for Health the location to which parliamentary questions to the HSE for operational services responses are referred; if his Department will mandate a correspondence return date for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42645/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: My question relates to Sláintecare policy, specifically in regard to resource deficiencies at University Hospital Waterford, which is a regional hospital serving 600,000 people. I received correspondence earlier this week from a medical professional who described how an immediate family member died in April at 49 years of age due to a heart attack. The catheterisation laboratory in...

Mental Health Policy: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: The Government's response to Covid-19 to date has been nothing short of seismic as Ireland borrows billions of euro to protect against the worst outcomes of the pandemic. Recent positive news regarding the development of a vaccine is pointing the way to an exit from the coronavirus but the lessons of lockdown and its resulting effects will last for a very long time. Our social fabric has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests. I am one of many parents who have been frustrated over the years with young children going to music events and so on. If people are not fortunate enough to be able to purchase tickets online in the early draft they end up going to the secondary market and get scalped for tickets. At sports matches, how is it that so many ticket touts can lay their hands on tickets when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: Primary tickets are largely offered and bought online. There are very specialist software programmes and bots that are being used to block buy tickets. A large amount of tickets that end up in the secondary resale area have been bought for that purpose. What has the Department proposed on this? How will the legislation cut across this process because it seems to be the main area where the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: Further work probably needs to be done in that area before this legislation is pushed through, particularly because of its effect on a company such as Viagogo. Tickets are sold in short tranches to try to slow down the roll-out to create the idea that there is an unknown quantity. Is there anything in the legislation to force transparency so that people know how many tickets are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I understand largely where the Department is trying to go with the Bill. I am concerned, as I am sure are other Deputies, about interfering in supply and demand. It will cut across the business model of some of the secondary sellers. How will foreign websites and domains be controlled from trading in tickets under the legislation? In the case of ticket touting on the road outside...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I have been at many matches. I do not think that I have ever seen a garda challenging a ticket tout and I have often seen ticket touts scalping tickets quite openly close to gardaí.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Sporting And Recreational Events) Bill 2020: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I also raised foreign domain websites which can trade in tickets.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (8 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether programmes delivered as collaborative provision in association with the Institute of Technology Carlow satisfy the QQI guidelines on cyclical review and annual institutional quality reporting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41903/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (8 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that the number of students enrolled on collaborative provision programmes within the Institute of Technology Carlow meet the eligibility criteria under section 28 of the Technological Universities Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41904/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (8 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the list of programmes offered by Institute of Technology Carlow by number of students registered, full or part-time status; the percentage of delivery provided by staff of the institute in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41905/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (8 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 26 November 2020, the breakdown of the 3,682 part-time enrolled students of Institute of Technology Carlow, by course, location of campus, the name of the collaborative provision partner if there is one, the NAQI level and the e enrolment and full-time equivalent of that enrolment in tabular form...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (8 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 26 November 2020, the county of domiciliary origin of the 3,682 part-time students enrolled in the Institute of Technology Carlow in tabular form. [41907/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Facilities (8 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if the cardiac service extension at University Hospital Waterford will include primary PPI service activity; if the extended opening hours will be notified to the National Ambulance Service (details supplied); if the PPCI service activity will extend to seven days either before or after Christmas 2020; the date the seven day regional PCI and PPCI service...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests for joining us this morning. Deputy Stanton highlighted the issues as being clarity, uncertainty about the supply chain, market access and pricing impacts. It is very hard to ask businesses anything when we say that they are not prepared for Brexit. We have to acknowledge that we do not know what Brexit will mean for many businesses. It is very hard to take a punt on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: Ms King referenced the short-time working agreement and highlighted the encouraging of training and upskilling. Most business is opportunity led and, first and foremost, they must significantly identify where their market opportunities are. We have the same problem in regional Waterford, as has been discussed on the Border. I refer to the idea of trying to identify opportunity and then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: On the issue of the Brexit Stakeholders Forum, dialogue and joined-up thinking were mentioned. Such an approach is fundamental and I hope that all those involved, including Government representatives, deliver on that. There must be a renewed focus on this, and the forum must morph into a true stakeholder forum, as has been asserted here today. As we have seen with NPHET, this forum or any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit and Readiness of Businesses, Employees and Communities: Discussion (2 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I echo the sentiments of the witnesses regarding the potential of third level education to accelerate our situation. On joined-up thinking, I refer to my exasperation with a specific issue which might highlight where we are. When I was elected to Leinster House in February, one of the first things that I brought to the attention of Government was the South Eastern Applied Materials Research...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Administration (1 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: As the Minister notes, a great deal of work has been done by principals, deputy principals and boards of management. Looking at any school with 200 or 300 pupils, one can see the additional workload around procurement for Covid. I also wish to highlight the problem of recruiting people from assistant principal to take on the principals' workloads. Many assistant principals regard it as an...